The Big Picture

I have to confess that, back in the early days of grad school when I fell in love with epidemiology, I had a bit of geeky wistfulness about not choosing space science. But I was really committed to going the route of studying diseases, and since there are no populations suffering disease in space (anyone beg to differ?) I made my choice and lived happily ever after. Today’s rising epidemiologists, however, could probably find a way to combine space science and epidemiology. The most major case in point: NASA has a series of projects using space technology for public health applications, mostly for monitoring environmental conditions on earth and predicting upswings in vector-borne illnesses.

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You are right! Science does not thrive in isolation, strengths and ideas from different disciplines when brought together makes progress….

I am on the committee for a graduate student who is researching bacterial growth under microgravity conditions. Partially funded by NASA, it could relate to astronauts who are not ill but may carry a pathogen in their nose or else where…